Redemption of a Born Demon

Synesthesia!!

This was a powerful ability derived from Yi Beidou’s Celestial Demon Sensing. It allowed him to perceive the True Intent deep within objects, recreating past scenes where that True Intent lingered—an ability tantamount to a Retrospect of spacetime itself!

Yi Beidou was now using this very sensory ability, and his target was the Earth Immortal Cells within the East King’s body—cells originating from Penglai Immortal Mountain.

Through his prior investigation and research on Earth Immortal Flesh and Blood, supplemented by the intelligence Beretta had provided, Yi Beidou had gained a deeper understanding of the Earth Immortal Cells.

One key point was that the Earth Immortal Cells contained remnants of their original host’s True Intent, possessing a certain "conceptual" attribute. Even in cells that had undergone Refinement, the Ancient Ones could not completely erase this residue, which seemed to penetrate their very essence.

However, under normal circumstances, the fundamental state of the Earth Immortal Cells was simply too high. The residual consciousness within them possessed a powerful self-preservation instinct. This was just like when Yi Beidou had struck with his palm earlier, and the Earth Immortal Flesh and Blood had spontaneously hardened into a jade-like substance to resist the damage.

This self-preservation wasn’t just on a physical level but also on a mental and conscious one. Even the Ancient Ones had to expend considerable effort to perform Refinement on them. Trying to sense them on the fly in the middle of a battlefield was impossible, even with the power of Yi Beidou’s Celestial Demon Sensing.

Unless... there was one possibility.

And that was to use a power of the same origin to stimulate and draw it out, thereby breaking through that instinctive line of defense.

This had been a theory of Yi Beidou’s, but it now seemed his theory was correct.

The reason Yi Beidou had chosen the East King as his first opponent wasn’t just because the King’s route was the closest to their position, nor was it solely because the East King had targeted Donghua Martial Artists in the East Sea and around Penglai Immortal Mountain. This theory had also been a major reason for him to make his move.

He hoped to catch a glimpse of the true secrets concerning the ancient Earth Immortals and Penglai Immortal Mountain through the East King.

He had to admit, the power of the Sleepers had somewhat exceeded his expectations. Even after activating his Perfect State, he was still being suppressed by his opponent and had even been pushed into a perilous situation. And despite possessing a power of the same origin, it was still difficult to connect with the residual consciousness in the Earth Immortal Cells via Synesthesia.

After all, the Earth Immortal Cells in the East King’s body had undergone years of his Refinement, giving him an extremely strong degree of control. The essential consciousness within them had already grown quite faint.

But as Yi Beidou put more and more pressure on the East King, forcing him to use even stronger Earth Immortal Power, it caused the essential consciousness within the Earth Immortal Cells to reawaken and strengthen, finally reaching the critical point for Yi Beidou’s Synesthesia to take hold.

Now, what appeared in his mind was not an illusion, but a real scene from the past!

A transcendent figure, dressed in attire unlike any known era, stood atop a mountain peak. Their entire body was like jade. This was very likely a true, ancient Earth Immortal from the legends!!

The scene was shrouded in a layer of mist, making it unclear. Perhaps it was because the fragmented will contained within the Earth Immortal Cells was too weak, but Yi Beidou could not clearly make out the figure’s specific features.

This person stood with their hands behind their back, seemingly gazing up from the summit at the boundless sky.

But in the next moment.

VMMMM!!

BOOM!!

The humming sound rapidly grew from faint to intense until Yi Beidou’s entire Synesthetic vision began to shake.

No, it wasn’t the vision that was shaking, but the entire mountain range beneath the figure’s feet that was vibrating violently.

’An earthquake?!’

No, the source of all the vibrations was the figure standing atop the peak, the one who seemed to be watching the sky.

Without a sound, their feet were Emitting Force, continuously shaking the entire mountain. This Power spread out, almost like a real earthquake.

The earth moved and the mountains shook!!

Yi Beidou had once encountered an opponent skilled in earth resonance—Yuri, one of the Starry Sky Country’s Sea, Land, and Air trio. Every step Yuri took could cause the ground to tremble. Combined with his True Intent, no living creature within a hundred-meter radius could remain standing, as if experiencing a magnitude-10 earthquake.

But that had just been a mental illusion created in conjunction with True Intent, not something real. The being in the Synesthetic vision right now, however, was truly and silently causing an entire mountain to shake and tremble.

Shaking a mountain with the power of one!

CRASH! RUMBLE!

Amid the tremors, giant boulders tumbled down the slopes, and cracks began to appear on the mountainside.

The cracks crisscrossed the surface, but they weren’t dense. Instead, they seemed to possess a sense of order, as if deliberately formed by the force the figure was emitting.

’What in the world... is this person trying to do?’

A trace of doubt flashed through Yi Beidou’s mind.

In the next instant, the figure flickered and reappeared on the side of the mountain, placing a hand against a section of the rock face.

VMMMM!!

A power that was both like radiant light and true jade spread out, enveloping a ten- to twenty-meter expanse of the mountainside before them.

BOOM!!

The figure’s palm seemed to exert force. With a slight tremor, the cracks on the mountainside—already formed from the previous vibrations—instantly split wide open. The massive chunk of rock enveloped in the jade-like light immediately slid free from the mountain.

The figure then applied force with their other hand, and an astonishing scene unfolded.

The massive, tumbling boulder was caught and lifted by the figure.

The body, just over two meters tall, formed a stark contrast with the rock, whose length, width, and height all exceeded ten meters. It was like a single person lifting a small building.

In fact, the weight of this single slab of rock was even more terrifying than that of a small building.

At the same time, a strange feeling spread through Yi Beidou’s mind.

The sight was certainly shocking, but there was a sense of dissonance to it, a feeling that it violated the laws of physics.